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you can't say you are going to reduce the deficit, give tax cuts to the upper class, and not raise taxes on the middle class, when he said he doesn't want to do this when he has been talking about it for the last 18 months and when he has had a lot of groups say this will cost $5 trillion and the middle class will end up paying for a lot of it, through cuts in programs it was a surreal moment. >> jamal: i was joking before you came on, that you are one of the few places where george soros decided to give money, but what does american bridge do? >> american bridge is a super pac, but we're a little bit different than what people might consider a super pac. we focus on political research candidate tracking and communications. and what we do is we provide content to other pacs so that they can do their polling and paid advertisement and mail and so on and so forth. so we are in -- we are in elections all across the country, of course, the president, but also battleground senate races and house races across the country. just working with the community to make sure they have the content that
you can't say you are going to reduce the deficit, give tax cuts to the upper class, and not raise taxes on the middle class, when he said he doesn't want to do this when he has been talking about it for the last 18 months and when he has had a lot of groups say this will cost $5 trillion and the middle class will end up paying for a lot of it, through cuts in programs it was a surreal moment. >> jamal: i was joking before you came on, that you are one of the few places where george soros...
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>>tax cuts don't create jobs. the golden years as the conservatives call them, we had the highest tax rates, and the highest amount of growth, and the highest amount of jobs. those are facts. >>"if you ever raise taxes on the rich, you're going to destroy our economy." not true! [ ♪ theme ♪ ] ♪ >> announcer: this is the "bill press show," live on your radio and current tv. >> bill: all right. 25 minutes after the hour. we're going to talk jobs, jobs jobs, the latest job numbers in the next segment here. the "full court press." right now a couple of political notes to bring you up to date with, yes, indeed. president hugo chavez winning a third time yesterday. another six-year term. everything i saw in anticipation of this election in venezuela, said that chavez was going to lose. the challenger was very strong. there were huge crowds turning out to vote yesterday, nbc us in had jorge ramos who was basically saying it is all over for chavez, but he pulled out another win. there is also continuing talk about a
>>tax cuts don't create jobs. the golden years as the conservatives call them, we had the highest tax rates, and the highest amount of growth, and the highest amount of jobs. those are facts. >>"if you ever raise taxes on the rich, you're going to destroy our economy." not true! [ ♪ theme ♪ ] ♪ >> announcer: this is the "bill press show," live on your radio and current tv. >> bill: all right. 25 minutes after the hour. we're going to talk jobs,...
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he says he is going cut taxes by $4.8 trillion, but no taxes that will contribute to the deficit? >> yeah. that one stuck out, especially since you can go right back to the primary campaign and when he was debating newt gingrich and rick santorum and the rest of the crew, he said hey wait a second, i'm going to reduce taxes by 20% across the board including the top 1%. that was his line. and the other thing that really stuck out is this issue of preexisting conditions when he looks into the camera and says hey, my plan does cover preexisting conditions. well that is just not true. it doesn't cover preexisting conditions for people who haven't had insurance before, which is a big part of the problem, literally millions and millions of people who would not be covered under his plan. >> bill: the one that really disappointed me to say the least, three times he came back to president obama has cut medicare benefits by $716 billion. >> yeah well there's -- there are a number of problems with that, starting with that it's not true. it's -- what he has done is they found savings on the p
he says he is going cut taxes by $4.8 trillion, but no taxes that will contribute to the deficit? >> yeah. that one stuck out, especially since you can go right back to the primary campaign and when he was debating newt gingrich and rick santorum and the rest of the crew, he said hey wait a second, i'm going to reduce taxes by 20% across the board including the top 1%. that was his line. and the other thing that really stuck out is this issue of preexisting conditions when he looks into...
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>>tax cuts don't create jobs. the golden years as the conservatives call them, we had the highest tax rates, and the highest amount of growth, and the highest amount of jobs. those are facts. >>"if you ever raise taxes on the rich, you're going to destroy our economy." not true! >> announcer: radio meets television. the "bill press show." now on current tv. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show". >> bill: it is 13 minutes before the top of the hour now on a thursday morning. the big thursday morning after last night's first presidential debate. taking your calls on what it all means and whether you think it will change the nature of the debate. niles standage has been covering all -- doing most of the predebate coverage. joining us on our news line this morning, take a look at the event itself. hey, nile, good morning. good to have you with us. >> bill: what's the consensus on last night? >> the consensus is quite simply that mitt romney had a much better night than president obama did. governor romney seemed
>>tax cuts don't create jobs. the golden years as the conservatives call them, we had the highest tax rates, and the highest amount of growth, and the highest amount of jobs. those are facts. >>"if you ever raise taxes on the rich, you're going to destroy our economy." not true! >> announcer: radio meets television. the "bill press show." now on current tv. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show". >> bill: it is 13 minutes before...